Wake-Up Weather: One more 100-degree day possible before a cooler and maybe wet weekend

Your sunrise summary of everything you need to know about weather in H-town.

4cast·in·5seconds

It’s hot. It’s dry. It’s August.

run·down

Houston hit 100 degrees on Wednesday for the first time since late June, and we’re likely to do so again today. Accordingly Houston remains under a heat advisory for at least one more day, says the National Weather Service. It’s also possible we’ll see more of that African dust I mentioned yesterday. It looks like haze and poses a slight breathing hazard to those who are sensitive.

Temperatures should cool off a bit on Friday before a potentially more significant change on Saturday and Sunday as tropical moisture pushes into Texas.

A pair of easterly waves will encounter a weakening ridge, bringing a chance of rain showers on both days to the region, with higher chances along the coast and just inland.

GFS model forecast rain accumulations for the weekend. (Weather Bell)

With increasing cloud cover the region the area should only see highs in the low- to mid-90s.

A slight chance of rain will linger into Monday and Tuesday of next week before the ridge of high pressure restrengthens.

trop·ics

The National Hurricane Center is tracking a disturbance now entering the Caribbean Sea, but given high wind shear it has a very low chance (10 percent) of development over the next five days. It could eventually move toward the Gulf of Mexico.

high·ku

One hundred degrees

JJ Watt can still salute

Would you tell him no?

final·fact

Since 1998 at least 86 children have died in Texas from heat stroke after being left in a vehicle. Reprehensible.